Years ago, Billy Connolly was a well-kept secret among my Caledoniaphile* friends and I; we'd collect his concert tapes (and there are many) and watch or listen to them until we could recite them backwards. To this day, I know someone who, if he's having a bad day, I only have to call an 'aggressive sweetie' to make even his worst anomie dissolve like so much fairy floss...
Since those halcyon days of the early 90s, Connolly's become more of a name on this side of the pond; still not the stature he has in the UK - yet - but thanks to high-profile appearances in films from art house (Mrs. Brown) to blockbuster (Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events), not to mention the prevalence of YouTube and a plethora of new ways to get the word out he's no longer the sly secret of a select few, but belongs at last to the multitudes...
*A fancy way of saying 'Scots-loving'...
*
No comments:
Post a Comment